In
reverse, to have dinner options at St. Katherine Dock: Docklands via Limehouse and
Wapping to the City
Note: London is now a Tier 2 Area: no mixed households indoors.
Length:
5.7 km (Tower Hill finish) or 7.1 km (Cannon Street finish)
Ascent/Descent:
negligible
Net
Walking Time: ca. 1 ¼ hours or 1 ½ hour
Toughness:
1 out of 10
Meet
at 18.30 hours outside Canary Wharf Underground Station’s westerly exit (signed
for Bank Street and Heron Quays & Canary Wharf DLR Stations), at street
level!
Here’s
the blurb for the original walk in easterly direction:
“An
easy amble following the Thames Path between Cannon Street and Canary Wharf,
passing through historic Wapping. Along the way, the route passes three
historic pubs – two of which claim to be the oldest riverside pub in London –
you decide which has the best claim. Instructions are hardly required for this
route – simply keep the river to your right – though occasionally the Thames
Path leaves the riverside….”
Dropout:
Wapping Overground
(3.5 km)
For
walk directions, maps, height profiles, photos and gpx/kml
files click here.
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2 comments:
One minor correction...if walking the route in reverse as proposed...you will need to keep the river on your left.....
We were 6 walkers already when a 7th appeared just before the meeting time, so 6 of those set off early, leaving the walk poster waiting for any potential late arrivals. And indeed 5 others trickled in from pubs, alternative exits to the tube station and off a late DLR train, so we formed a second group of 6: n=12 in total.
It was w=warm for the time of year and the sky quite clear so that star and moongazers had something to look at, while the rest of us enjoyed the bright lights of the City and of Canary Wharf. Personally, I thought it is an even better walk in the dark than during the day...
Some of the private paths fronting residential developments are of course locked off after dusk (mostly in Wapping), so there is a downside, but that way one can see more of the warehouse developments etc. Not bad at all.
The first group did enter the Prospect of Whitby en route for a drink break, while my group marched on to the Dickens Inn at St Katherine Dock, with their many outside tables, one of which was then later occupied by group 1, so all 12 were in the one place (if at distance). Most stayed to closing time.
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